Items Tagged with "hackers"
Top Ten Embarrassing Data Breach Events
April 05, 2011 Added by:Headlines
As the Epsilon data breach continues to grow to epic proportion, with the latest reports estimating that the client data of at least fifty major company's has been compromised, Tom Brewster has published an article with his list of the top ten most embarrassing data breaches to date...
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The Art of Cyber Warfare - Educational Fail
April 04, 2011 Added by:J. Oquendo
Is there a solution to the ever continuing FUD machine? Cyberwarfare is over-hyped and misrepresented. The fact is, even responsible individuals get it wrong consistently. This is how and why we fail, and will continue to fail, to defend against "computer related" attacks...
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Hackers Are Second Biggest Threat to Airline Security
April 01, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"The next generation of cyber threats may directly affect aviation equipment, not simply stealing credit cards and denying travelers access to online booking sites. For the future, cyber-threats will be more diversified and take the form of multi-stage and multi-dimensional attacks..."
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F-Secure's April Fools Hack Article is No Joke
April 01, 2011 Added by:Headlines
F-Secure posted a nice April Fool's day article that was so subtle it slipped into several security news feeds unnoticed. While the article itself may be just a fun prank, readers would be wise not to let the sardonic wit overshadow the important message about password security...
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Chinese Cyber Espionage Operations Escalate
March 31, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Today, we see constant attempts by cyber means to steal the nation's secrets, as well as information vital to the effective operation of critical national industries and infrastructure, not to mention commercial intelligence and criminal fraud..."
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Why Defense in Depth Will Never Be Sufficient
March 30, 2011 Added by:J. Oquendo
Defense in depth is a great approach at defending from the outside in, but far too many professionals are entrenched in getting this right while attackers are increasingly “punching holes” on their way out. Defense in Depth is not going to solve the "advanced persistent” issue...
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RSA Breach Long Term Impact for Security Professionals
March 30, 2011 Added by:Nick Owen
With the explosion of cloud-based services, organizations are relying on the security of their vendor's vendors. What lessons can we learn from the RSA and Comodo episodes, and how should it impact decision making? Here are some longer-term items to think about...
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Attack Utilizes Vanity Searches to Target Executives
March 29, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Boodaei calls the attack "VIGNS" - short for "Vanity Infection from Google News Searches" - and the purpose is to create the circumstance where the targeted victim will enable the attacker to circumvent security measures and infect the executive's computer with malware...
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European Union Parliament Also Under Cyber Attack
March 29, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Following on the heels of a cyber assault against the European Union's Commission and External Action Service, reports have surfaced that the EU Parliament's systems are also being targeted in an attack. “This is not a couple of teenage boys hacking into the [EU] institutions..."
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Backstopping Backtrace: Maltego Mapping of Anonymous
March 29, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
In the cases of the three Anonymous nicknames searched here, I was able to pretty safely say that they all are technical individuals with connections to 4chan/Anonymous and as such the authorities are likely paying attention to them already through their own investigations...
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MySQL Website Hacked (Ironically) by Blind SQL Injection
March 28, 2011 Added by:Rafal Los
Allow me to point out a little bit of irony in this headline... a website for one of the more popular open-source database alternatives gets completely compromised using blind SQL Injection. Ouch. Someone going by the moniker "Jack Haxor" posted this to the Full Disclosure mailing list...
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Hackers Focusing on Corporate Intellectual Capital
March 28, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Cybercriminals understand there is greater value in selling a corporations' proprietary information and trade secrets, which have little to no protection, making intellectual capital their new currency of choice...
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Seven Types of Hacker Motivations
March 25, 2011 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Governments around the globe realize that it serves their military objectives to be well positioned online. The saying used to be, “He who controls the seas controls the world,” and then it was, “He who controls the air controls the world.” Now it’s all about controlling cyberspace...
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Comodo Fingers Iranian Hackers in Digital Certificate Heist
March 24, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"We believe these are politically motivated, state-driven/funded attacks. One of the origins of the attack that we experienced is from Iran. What is being obtained would enable the perpetrator to intercept Web-based email/communication," said Melih Abdulhayoglu, the CEO and founder of Comodo...
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HBGary's Hoglund: Anonymous are Criminal Hackers
March 22, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"They are going after people's family and children. They actually have all the family members listed. And they call them up on the phone. They harass them. There have been cases where death threats have been left. It's just ridiculous, and it's completely unacceptable," Hoglund said...
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Anonymous vs. Anonymous: Enough Hubris To Go Around
March 19, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
"A hacker startup calling itself Backtrace Security–made up of individuals who formerly counted themselves as part of Anonymous’ loose digital collective–announced plans Friday to publish identifying information on a handful of active members of Anonymous..."